The Ministry of Women and Child Development in collaboration with the Ministry of Panchayati Raj has launched a nationwide programme for capacity building of Elected Women Representatives (EWRs) of Panchayats and a training program for Trainers of women panchayat leaders at Ranchi, Jharkhand. The Ministry of Women and Child Development ...
Read More »Kishori Shakti Yojana: Empowerment of Adolescent Girls
Kishori Shakti Yojana (KSY) seeks to empower adolescent girls, so as to enable them to take charge of their lives. It is viewed as a holistic initiative for the development of adolescent girls. The programme through its interventions aims at bringing about a difference in the lives of the adolescent ...
Read More »Swadhar Greh : Rehabilitation center for Women and Girls
We often came with the news that women in particular region were treated badly, mentally traumatized and uncountable ill treated cases. This scheme is meant to provide temporary accommodation, maintenance and rehabilitative services to those women and girls. Another scheme with the similar objectives namely Swadhar –A Scheme for Women ...
Read More »Assistance to Voluntary Organizations in the field of Child and Women Development
Voluntary organization plays a very important role to help women and child, and provide them social security. To help these organizations, Government of India is providing grant-in-aid scheme to such voluntary organizations. Objective: To prove grants to voluntary organization in the field of Child and Women Development. Eligibility: Voluntary organizations ...
Read More »Scheme for girl child born after 1st April, 2015 “Ladli Beti”: Jammu Kashmir
Jammu & Kashmir Government announced this scheme “Ladli Beti” exclusively for new born girl child of the State born on or after 01st April, 2015. Objective To arrest the declining female sex ratio. To reduce the financial burden of the girl’s parents. To ensure that the girl child does not ...
Read More »Bhagyalakshmi Scheme: Preparing our Daughters for future: Karnataka
This Scheme is launched by Women and Child Department, Karnataka. Objective To promote the birth of girl children in below poverty line families and to raise the status of the girl child in the family in particular and society in general. Financial assistance is provided to the girl child through ...
Read More »Women safety and empowerment starts with Haryana: Mahila Police Volunteer Initiative
The Mahila Police Volunteer initiative was launched in Haryana in Karnal and Mahendragarh districts, Haryana became the first state to adopt this Scheme. Originally conceived by the Union Ministry of Women & Child Development, Mahila Police Volunteer is a joint initiative with the Union Ministry of Home Affairs. Haryana inducted the ...
Read More »Legal assistance cells launched in each panchayat under MASS: Odisha
The state government has come up with yet another scheme, ‘Madhubabu Aain Sahayata Sibir (MASS)’. Under the scheme, the state government would set up legal assistance cells in all 6,812 gram panchayats across the state to provide free legal consultations to deprived sections of the society at the grassroots. Informing ...
Read More »National Policy for Empowerment of Women: 2016
Ministry of Women and Child Development presents the policy for most powerful yet neglected section of our society. “National Policy for Empowerment of Women”. Vision To bring about the advancement, development and empowerment of women. To encourage active participation of all stakeholders for achieving its goals. Specifically, the objectives of ...
Read More »Build your Business : New Swarnim For Women
National Backward Classes Finance and Development Corporation(NBCFDC) have initiated a scheme for Women who want to be Entrepreneur. The scheme aims for providing Financial Assistance to women who want to grow in business. Objective: To provide loan for the business. Eligibility: Backward Class Women. annual family income less than double the ...
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